Arrest affidavit reveals details of WMS principal's arrest

Nov. 15, 2012

Doug Englert

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Doug Englert, the Windsor Middle School principal who was arrested last week for domestic violence, punched his wife in the stomach multiple times, causing her to seek medical attention, according to a Windsor Police Department arrest affidavit.

The affidavit says the incident happened on the evening of Nov. 6, two days before Doug Englert was arrested on charges of assault, child abuse without injury and harassment. A doctor who treated Kelly Englert, Doug Englert’s wife, notified police of the incident Thursday afternoon after treating her.

Englert’s wife told police the Nov. 6 beating started around 8:20 p.m. with an argument over who was supposed to pick their son up from a friend’s house. She told police her husband was being “verbally and physically intimidating” toward her and the argument progressed to yelling and screaming until he shoved her against a laundry room wall in their home.

She said she then punched her husband in self-defense to get him away from her and told him to stop. He shoved her again and punched her three times with closed fists on the left side of her stomach, according to the affidavit.

Englert’s wife told police her husband has been physically abusive toward her in the past.

According to the affidavit, the incident ended when Englert’s wife screamed her son’s name and Doug Englert went into the family’s kitchen.

The couple’s son, who was in the home at the time of the incident, told police he didn’t see anything but heard his parents yelling before he heard “slapping noises” and his mom screaming his name. He also said his father couldn’t back down from a fight.

After being arrested Thursday, Doug Englert waived his Miranda Rights and spoke to officers, saying that his wife had punched him first. When asked if he punched his wife in self-defense or retaliation, he said “he did not know the answer to that question,” according to the affidavit.

Doug Englert, who has been at Windsor Middle School since 1994, was then transported to the Weld County Jail. He’s since made bond and is set to appear in court Monday. He is on paid administrative leave, replaced by Eric Johnson, who has been named interim principal at the school.